The Secret Adversary

Synopsis

The Secret Adversary is written by Agatha Christie, immediately after her most successful first crime novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles".  This novel moves around the key characters named Tommy and Tuppence and perhaps appears in five of the preceding novels of Agatha.  

Thomas Bereford nicknamed  Tommy is a young Englishman who participated in the Great War and wounded couple of times, now looking for generating income of his own.  Prudence L Cowley, nicknamed Tuppence, a young women who was also serving the Great War. Tommy and Tuppence is now looking for their livelihood in the post war scenario. After frustrating days passed, they decided to form “Young Adventures Ltd” and advertise in the newspapers, that they can do anything for money, of course the advertisement enclose terms and conditions.  

The rest of the story is narrated their way to landing into troubles, with lots of twists and turns in typical Agatha’s adventurous style.  Though this novel may not be as good as her first novel, still it would a good food adventure readers.

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